What are the effects, functions and methods of consumption of reed root?

Reed root, also known as reed root, is a perennial herb. It is like a smaller version of bamboo. Its entire appearance is slender and sectioned, like sugarcane. Reed root likes a humid environment and generally grows in lakes, swamps, and ditches along the edges of ponds. Reed root has a sweet taste and has the effects of clearing away heat and fire, relieving restlessness and promoting diuresis.

The efficacy of reed root

Reed root is a medicine for clearing heat and purging fire. It is the general name for the fresh or dried rhizomes of the monocotyledonous plant Phragmites australis of the Poaceae family. It is dry and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat and promoting body fluid, relieving restlessness, stopping vomiting and promoting diuresis. It is effective for thirst due to fever, vomiting and hiccups due to stomach heat, cough due to lung heat, vomiting of pus due to lung abscess, and painful and astringent stranguria due to heat.

The efficacy of reed root

Reed root, when combined with mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, platycodon and other medicines, has the effect of treating wind-heat cough. Combined with mulberry bark, scutellaria baicalensis, fritillaria and other medicines, it has the effects of clearing heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough for symptoms such as lung heat, cough, thick phlegm, lung abscess, and coughing up pus and blood.

The role of reed root

"Jinkui Yuhan Fang" records that reed root can treat five types of choking, stagnation of qi in the heart and diaphragm, irritability, vomiting, and loss of appetite. The method of consumption is to take five liang of reed root, grind it into ashes, boil it with three bowls of water into two bowls, remove the dregs, and take it without timing when the medicine juice is warm. "Hunan Pharmacopoeia" also records that reed root can cure whooping cough. How to eat: Take 30g of reed root, 6g of Selaginella, 6g of Oroxylum bungeana, and 7.5g of cowhide jelly, and decoct them in water.

The role of reed root

Reed root can also cure bleeding gums. As long as we boil the reed root with water and drink it as tea, the medicinal effect can be achieved. "Quanzhou Materia Medica" records that reed root can also treat sore throat. Just mash the fresh reed root to extract the juice, then add honey and drink it.

Taboos of Phragmites

Since reed root is a cold medicine, it is effective in removing heat and relieving cough. However, people with spleen and stomach deficiency are prohibited from taking reed root, and people without spleen and stomach deficiency should not take it with croton.